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Sam Kerbel

Sam Kerbel has written for the Jewish Daily Forward, Kirkus Reviews, and Guernica, among other publications.

  • (Photo by Kiki Kosinski)
    (Photo by Kiki Kosinski)
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    The Tainted Bird

    A new collection of Jerzy Kosinski’s interviews and speeches reveals an Everyman who worked on his own terms

    bySam Kerbel
  • (Photoillustration Tablet Magazine, original photo James Vaughan/Flickr)
    (Photoillustration Tablet Magazine, original photo James Vaughan/Flickr)
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    Portnoy’s Complaint, in Analysis

    Hebrew University professor Bernard Avishai’s playful new critical look at Philip Roth’s 1969 classic digs deep into the novel’s neurotic passion

    bySam Kerbel
  • Nick Kroll as Rodney Ruxin in The League.(Jeremy Cowart/FX )
    Nick Kroll as Rodney Ruxin in The League.(Jeremy Cowart/FX )
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    Bad Sport

    The Jewish hero of the FX sitcom The League offers an engaging blend of Woody Allen’s neurosis and Larry David’s intransigence

    bySam Kerbel
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